As I mentioned in my previous post, Elizabeth Gladys Dean, or Millvina, was the last survivor of the Titanic disaster. She passed away in 2009 at 97 years of age. When boarding the ship in Southampton, she was just nine weeks old. Millvina was accompanied by her father, Bertram Frank Dean, her mother Georgette Eva Light Dean and her brother Bertram Vere Dean.
The Dean family was never meant to be aboard Titanic. They were supposed to travel on another White Star liner, the Adriatic, but it did not sail because of a coal strike. White Star then transferred them to the Titanic as third class passengers in cabin number 33. The family was traveling to Wichita, Kan., where Millvina's father had family. He hoped to open his own tobacco shop. Unfortunately, he was the only Dean casualty in the early hours of April 15, 1912.
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